Peter Norvig

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 29 Apr

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But with today's AI systems, you have to specify that, right?

So you have to build the system and there's got to be an exact number in there of saying, what is the trade-off point?

And we're not very good at understanding how to do that, right?

So we've got, you know, we built a software industry and we have 50 years of experience in building debugging tools and so on.

So we're pretty good at making reliable software.

There are still...

You know, every week you'll see some kind of bug or something, but we're getting pretty good at that.

But we don't have a history of tools for saying, how do we specify the right objective?

What are the trade-offs?

You know, how important is it to avoid this mistake versus that mistake?

And so we're kind of going by the seat of our pants and trying to figure that out.

And so I think that's where a lot of the focus is now is how do you decide what you really want?

Yeah.

So that's great.

And Fei-Fei is awesome.

And I've heard many of her talks where she makes great points like that.

Let's see.

So I guess I would try to avoid trying to make metrics that are one dimensional, right?

How does AI compare to humans?

For a couple of reasons.

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